>>judge napolitano: in 19869 reagan justice department persuaded the congress and president obama to sign the electronic privacy act of 1986 and it says for our purposes if you communicate by electronics through the bank including a wire transfer, and the bank retains it for more than 180 days the feds can get it without a certain warrant less than 180 days they need a warrant. this pertained only to financial institutions. federal agents began to persuade other institutions they, too, had to surrender e-mails that were longer than 180 days. before you know it much of federal law enforcement was operating under this statute. we can get e-mails older than 180 days there they pertain to financial transactions or not. that brought this to a head. perhaps the david petraeus did, as well, but, a combination of liberal democrats and libertarian republicans, along with moderate and conservative republicans and democrats, voted with only one dissent in the senate judiciary committee, to ban federal agents from getting any e-mails from anyone under any circumstances whether pertaining to a ba